Robotic Boogaloo

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see May 17, 2013 Patch.

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The Robotic Boogaloo is a major content update for Team Fortress 2, released during the May 17, 2013 Patch. It was the first ever community-created update, with 57 different community-created items being added into the game. The 39 hats and 15 miscellaneous items are robotic versions of ordinary TF2 hats and miscs, spanning all classes. Along with this, 10 new robot-related Unusual effects, 3 new action items - the Pallet of Crates, Random RoboKey Gift and Pile of RoboKey Gifts - and one tool - the RoboCrate Key - were added to the game.

Additions

Tool

Robo Community Crate Key

Videos

This is the video that was released by MrPopulus89 on 17th May on YouTube and the TF2 website.

This is the earlier version of the video which was released 1st February which a few minor changes in the video.

Video Transcript

Transcript

[A crowbar prys open a crate.] [A Scout Robot is seen.] [It then shows a Football Helmet in the crate. ] [The Scout Robot picks the Football Helmet up, rotates around and begins to run.] [The Scout Robot runs past large piles of crates and a pile of hats consisting of Sober Stuntmans, Big Chiefs, Counterfeit Billycocks and more.] [The Scout Robot then approaches a circular mechanism in the center surrounded by piles of crates with four wires leading to it.] [The robot places the helmet on the pad, and covers his face] [The machine starts scanning the helmet. Then on the monitor it shows a blue thumbs up and slams a tube over it] [It begins to play an edited version of ROBOTS! (Soundtrack)] [Follows the tube which leads to four long conveyor belts with machines on either side of each of them] [Then we see the Gridiron Guardian being created by the mechanical arms] [The Gridiron Guardian then falls off the conveyor belt and lands on a Heavy] Heavy: "YES!" [nods] [A sign saying Team Fortress 2 then hits the Heavy in the face then the words Robotic Boogaloo hits him over]

Comparisons

• Both videos have large piles of hats, however the older version has more Ghastly Gibus's than anything else.

• More crates are seen in the older version.

• The newer version has three conveyors rather than one and has fewer piles of crates.

• The machine that scans the Football Helmet is more detailed in the newer version and has a blue thumbs up unlike the old green OK.